Saskatchewan Chief Medical Health Officer Dr. Saqib Shahab. (Lisa Schick/CKOM News Staff)

By paNOW Staff

COVID-19

Universal testing starting today, five new cases of COVID-19 reported

Jul 14, 2020 | 2:15 PM

Starting today, COVID-19 testing is available to anyone who requests it, regardless of whether they have symptoms or not. A referral for testing can be made by contacting HealthLine 811.

There are five new cases of COVID-19 and 19 more recoveries in Saskatchewan today.

This brings the total to 876 cases province wide.

Three of the new cases are in the Central region, one in the Saskatoon region and one in the Regina region.

Of the 876 reported cases, 76 are considered active. A total of 785 people have recovered.

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Premier Scott Moe says Saskatchewan people need to not let their guard down when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The increase in case numbers over recent days and should serves as a reminder for each and every one of us that we have to continue with all of the good practices that have worked for us and have been successful thus far.”

Six people are in hospital. Four people are receiving inpatient care, all in Saskatoon. Two people are in intensive care; one in Saskatoon and one in the South.

The latest COVID-19 numbers in Saskatchewan. (Government of Saskatchewan)

Of the 876 cases in the province 176 cases are travellers, 493 are community contacts (including mass gatherings), 132 have no known exposures and 75 are under investigation by local public health.

Overall in Saskatchewan 58 cases are health care workers; however, the source of the infections may not be related to their work in all instances.

Furthermore, 339 of the cases are from the Far North, 199 are from the Saskatoon area, 120 from the North, 85 from the Regina area, 83 from the South and 50 from the Central region.

In the province 121 cases involve people 19 years of age and under, while the remainder are adults.

Three hundred and ten cases are in the 20-39 age range, 270 are in the 40-59 age range, 151 are in the 60-79 age range and 24 are in the 80-plus range.

Premier Scott Moe says while Saskatchewan continues to see localized outbreaks of COVID-19, communities have shown the spread of the virus can be controlled.

“I want to commend everybody in the community of La Loche and other northern communities for everything that they have done to control the outbreak in that part of our province. The number of active cases in the far north is down to just six.”

Fifty-two per cent of the cases are females and 48 per cent are males.

There are 15 deaths related to COVID-19 that have been reported so far.

To date, 75,774 COVID‐19 tests have been performed in Saskatchewan. As of July 12, 2020, when other provincial and national numbers were available from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 55,918 people tested per million population. The national rate was 86,663 people tested per million population.

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